2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-2502. Legislative findings and declaration.

63 OK Stat § 63-1-2502 (2016) What's This?

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:

1. There is a critical shortage of providers of emergency care for:

a. the delivery of fast, efficient emergency medical care for the sick and injured at the scene of a medical emergency and during transport to a health care facility, and

b. the delivery of stabilizing and definitive care at a health care facility; and

2. Improved emergency service is required to reduce the mortality rate during the first critical minutes immediately following the onset of a medical emergency.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 320, § 6, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 156, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.

NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 1-2402 of this title to avoid a duplication in numbering.

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